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Legislation and the career ladder |
29 Mar 2006 |
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Last week’s Equality Review highlighted the discrimination that still faces women returning to the workplace after having children.
It's thirty years since the Equal Pay Act but women’s pay still lags behind men’s by some 13 percent, (rising to forty percent for part time workers). Last year thirty thousand women were sacked for being pregnant despite the fact that it’s illegal.
So is it time to ask whether legislation is really the best way to get women not just into work but into careers? And what can we learn from the way other countries have tried to help women to climb the career ladder?
The Undercover Economist by Tim Harford, published by Little Brown, ISBN: 0195189779.Working Lives Research InstituteDisclaimer
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